I have to give credit to my kids because we went to the San Antonio Zoo yesterday and the walk to the entrance was about a mile (really), the park was PACKED, the animals all looked sad and were sleeping or pacing in circles, and I kept feeding them healthy cardboard snacks because San Antonio [...]
As spring emerges, so does hiking season for a lot of us. I recently went on a 3.5 mile hike with my 3-year-old and 6-year-old. The 3-year-old is easy because I carry him in a backpack most of the time. Getting my 6-year-old through the hike, however, sometimes can be tricky. Now, I KNOW that [...]
“Regular physical activity is probably as close to a magic bullet as we will come in modern medicine,” Says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “If everyone, in the U.S. were to walk briskly 30-40 minutes a day, we could cut the incidence of many chronic diseases 30-40%.” [...]
